Openreach Reveal Annual 2025 UK Broadband and Ethernet Price Rises for ISPs UPDATE
Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today started to unveil their usual round of annual price increases (and some decreases) for 2025 across their wholesale broadband and Ethernet products for UK ISPs, which touches on everything from full fibre (FTTP) to hybrid fibre (SOGEA), SOTAP and unbundled lines (LLU), among other products.
Ofcom currently allows (example) Openreach to increase prices across their various products, usually by the CPI level of inflation (currently 3.6%), although this may differ between products due to various factors (discounts etc.) and there could also be some decreases. But increases mean that ISPs on the same network will need to pay more for the services they sell, which often ends up being passed on to consumers at the retail level.
The price changes are far too numerous to easily summarise as they occur across masses of different products and services, but you can find more details by following the links on their Pricing Page and Briefings Page. At the time of writing, Openreach haven’t yet confirmed all of their changes for 2025 (Cablelinks and Ethernet to follow) – it sometimes takes them a few days to release all the changes (today’s mostly relate to older copper line services and construction charges).
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However, some prices are going down. For example, the cost of fitting an ISP supplied UPS will see a price reduction from £13.50 to £6 +vat for both FTTP and SOGEA broadband products. On the flip side, various Excess Construction Charges (ECC) are going up in price for those who need extra engineering work.
This round of annual price changes are technically the first to be informed by Ofcom’s 5-yearly Telecoms Access Review 2026 (TAR), which means they could still be tweaked again in March 2026 if the regulator chooses to radically depart from their initial proposals in the same area. Openreach do this in order to make it as smooth for their customers as possible, rather than having to announce more than one set of price changes in the same period.
UPDATE 12th Dec 2025
Clarified Openreach’s approach to pricing changes with the forthcoming TAR.
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